Semey (Kazakh: Семей), formerly known as Semipalatinsk (Russian: Семипала́тинск, until 2007) and Alash-kala (Kazakh: Алаш-қала / Alaş-qala, 1917–1920), is a city in Kazakhstan with population of around 300,000 people.

Understand

Voskresenskiy Sobor

Semipalatinsk was the centre of the Soviet atomic weapons testing program.

Get in

By plane

• 1 Semey Airport (PLX  ^IATA). has flights from Almaty and Astana.  

By train

Train connections include Almaty, Astana via Pavlodar and Novosibirsk.

See

• "Silnee Smerti" (Stronger than death) Memorial to the victims of nuclear testing, Polkovnichiy Island.
• The Semipalatinsk Bridge

Religious buildings

Abai Qunanbaiuli Literature Museum

Museums

• Abai Museum (Abai Qunanbaiuli Literature Museum). 
• Dostoyevsky Museum (Fyodor Dostoyevsky Literature Museum). 
• East Kazakhstan Regional Museum of Fine Arts. The largest art museum in Kazakhstan, over 3500 artworks. 

Do

Enlik-Kebek cinema

• Enlik-Kebek cinema

Go next

• Omsk and Novosibirsk in Russia
• Oskemen
• Pavlodar